Principal QA Automation Engineer

Role Overview

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint.
• Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout a portfolio of projects. Reflect and instill the core values to example and leadership.
• Ensure Success: Provide end-to-end QA supervision for a portfolio of projects to ensure successful delivery within budget; ensure that best practices and standards are followed by all team members across all projects.
• Advance Capabilities: Continuously research and experiment with new tools and frameworks that create more value for client engagements; provide research, development and improvement of the already established processes, best practices, documentation and resources for all teams within the organization in regards to all the aspects of quality assurance.
• Give Feedback: Communicate expectations throughout the project team and manage escalations promptly and thoroughly; provide a growth and development structure to team members as well as objectives that align their individual performance and organizational goals.
• Set Standards: Develop standards for testing and reporting, analyze portfolio of testing metrics to advance our capabilities, research and implement new tools and processes.
• Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting; assist with optimizing the process to ensure quality recruiting.
• Eliminate Ambiguity: Develop detailed testing strategies that build confidence with the agile team and client stakeholders, including technical planning, rigorous subtasking, advance research, contingency plans, release criteria, etc.

Requirements

• Technical Proficiency: demonstrable proficiency with desired technologies and tools.
• Deep expertise in developing and maintaining end-to-end test frameworks using Selenium or Playwright along with expertise using these frameworks with C# and .NET or Java.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD integration of automated tests using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, including parallel execution, test reporting, and environment management.
• Testing up a test automation framework from scratch.
• Additional knowledge and experience in AI assisted development and testing (Claude Code, Cursor, CoPilot etc.).
• Practical Experience: 8-11+ years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, leading and executing automated testing for web and mobile applications, and leveraging industry-standard tools to ensure optimal product quality across all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Client Leadership: Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value.
• Outcome Orientation: Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact.
• Mentorship Experience: Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews.
• Relevant Education: may include intensive programs, A technical degree is a plus, but equivalent experience via bootcamps, self-teaching, or professional practice is equally valued.
• Values Alignment: We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality – learn more about our Core Values and be sure to let us know which aligns most with your experience!

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Java
• Jenkins
• Selenium
• .NET

Benefits

• A stable, full-time role.
• Work/life balance that’s real.
• A culture worth joining.
• Support without micromanagement.
• Your voice matters.
• Time to recharge.
• Local perks, global standards.
• We invest in your growth.
• People-first always.